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SZA

SZA (born queen; November 8, 1989, St. Louis, United States, 12:17), aged 37, is an American singer. SZA is best known for One of Them Days.

SZA’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, Chinese zodiac is Earth Snake, with Life Path 1 in numerology.

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SZA’s AsterNym identity

The Tidal Scholar

Water represents depth and adaptability. Water-led charts are associated with instinct, memory and the ability to find a path around obstacles. Life Path 1 represents initiative: beginning, working independently and moving before everyone agrees.

Water Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 1, on the mental plane.

SZA’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

1 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Topaz, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Chrysanthemum · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌻 Zinnia

Gold · Crimson · Terracotta

The record

What sets SZA apart

What keeps SZA in print: One of Them Days.

Columbia High School shaped the training.

The working life starts in 2011, at 22.

Alain Delon (1935) and Gordon Ramsay (1966) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Known for
One of Them Days
Educated at
Columbia High School
Instruments
voice
Nominated for
Grammy Award for Best New Artist and Academy Award for Best Original Song
Working from
2011
Wikipedia editions
50

What the chart says

SZA, according to the stars

Core essence

SZA does not do surface. The core of SZA is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from SZA is earned slowly and never given lightly.

The vibe

Underneath, SZA is porous: other people's moods get in, and so does beauty, and so does the sad song. The Moon in Pisces feels everything and forgives most of it. What SZA needs to feel safe is gentleness and someone who does not make them explain the tears. They will love you back with their whole imagination.

How SZA wants to be loved

SZA wants to be loved seriously. Venus in Capricorn is slow to open and then loyal for life, and it shows love by building: the plan, the future, the thing that lasts. Respect is the romance. Show SZA you are in it for real and the reserve melts into a warmth almost nobody else gets to see.

How SZA creates

How SZA makes things happen: they keep moving. A Yang Water day master is the river, curious, restless, going somewhere even when nobody knows where. SZA creates by exploring, by talking to everyone, by carrying ideas from one place to another. Hard to pin down, impossible to dam, and the best person to have on a long trip.

Instinct

Instinct: SZA is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 1 is the pioneer. SZA is here to go first, to start the thing, to trust their own read when nobody else has a map. Independence is the gift and the lesson: the best version of SZA leads without needing to do it alone.

Triggers

Triggers: betrayal, and being handled. Mars in Scorpio means SZA runs hot underneath and cold on top; the anger is quiet, deep and long-remembered. They do not lose their temper, they decide. Point that focus at a goal and nothing survives in its way.

Computed from SZA's birth date. Working below.

Where SZA sits

Six lines

SZA’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
SZA

You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.

DeliberateSpontaneous
SZA

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
SZA

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
SZA

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
SZA

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
SZA

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to SZA

Three stars chosen from the real sky above St. Louis on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Read from the sky above St. Louis at 12:17, SZA’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over St. Louis that night

Computed for 38.63°N, at the documented birth time.

Alphecca stood nearest the zenith over St. Louis at the birth hour, 78.0° above the horizon in Corona Borealis.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 83 catalog stars were up in all.

From 38.6°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.

Nothing below −51.4° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from St. Louis on any night.

The Moon, 73% lit at waxing gibbous, had already set; the Sun sat -34° below the horizon.

The name and the places

Born as
queen
Known as
SZA
Born in
St. Louis, United States

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What SZA's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Elder 天梁 in 巳

Bureau 木三局 · Body Palace in Self

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 4/6

Sacral authority · Triple Split definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

78 / 100 · Rare

4-planet stellium in Scorpio · 4-planet stellium in Capricorn · Grand trine

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart.

Score your own chart →

If you only read one paragraph

Scorpio Sun

Reads the room. Says nothing.

SZA's Sun was in Scorpio at the documented birth time.

What Scorpio means →

Earth Snake

Private by design.

SZA was born on November 8, 1989, which falls in a Earth Snake year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Snake means →

Life Path 1

Starts things. Lots of things.

SZA's birth date, November 8, 1989, reduces to Life Path 1 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 1 means →

What stands out in SZA’s chart

SZA’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury fuses with Pluto · Conjunction, 0.1° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.3° orbMars opens doors for Uranus · Sextile, 0.3° orbSaturn fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 0.3° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 0.4° orbVenus fuses with Uranus · Conjunction, 0.6° orbJupiter faces off with Saturn · Opposition, 0.7° orbSun fuses with Mercury · Conjunction, 1.2° orbSun in Scorpio · 16°20′ · house 10☉16°Moon in Pisces · 13°52′ · house 2☽13°Mercury in Scorpio · 15°06′ · house 10☿15°Venus in Capricorn · 3°23′ · house 12♀3°Mars in Scorpio · 3°02′ · house 10♂3°Jupiter in Cancer · 10°41′ · house 6 · retrograde♃℞10°Saturn in Capricorn · 9°57′ · house 12♄9°Uranus in Capricorn · 2°47′ · house 12♅2°Neptune in Capricorn · 10°14′ · house 12♆10°Pluto in Scorpio · 15°10′ · house 10♇15°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAqr 3°18′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLeo 3°18′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCSco 24°20′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICTau 24°20′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantAquarius
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MercuryconjunctionPlutoapplying · 0.1° orb

    SZA’s mind and depths act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.

  • VenussextileMarsseparating · 0.3° orb

    SZA’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • MarssextileUranusseparating · 0.3° orb

    SZA’s drive opens doors for their need for freedom. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.

  • SaturnconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 0.3° orb

  • JupiteroppositionNeptuneapplying · 0.4° orb

  • VenusconjunctionUranusseparating · 0.6° orb

  • JupiteroppositionSaturnapplying · 0.7° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 1.2° orb

  • SunconjunctionPlutoseparating · 1.2° orb

  • MoontrineMercuryapplying · 1.2° orb

  • MoontrinePlutoapplying · 1.3° orb

  • SuntrineMoonapplying · 2.5° orb

  • MoontrineJupiterseparating · 3.2° orb

  • MoonsextileNeptuneseparating · 3.6° orb

  • MoonsextileSaturnseparating · 3.9° orb

  • MercurytrineJupiterseparating · 4.4° orb

  • JupitertrinePlutoseparating · 4.5° orb

  • MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 4.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoseparating · 4.9° orb

  • SuntrineJupiterseparating · 5.6° orb

  • VenusconjunctionSaturnapplying · 6.6° orb

  • VenusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 6.9° orb

  • SaturnconjunctionUranusseparating · 7.2° orb

  • VenusoppositionJupiterapplying · 7.3° orb

  • UranusconjunctionNeptuneapplying · 7.5° orb

  • JupiteroppositionUranusapplying · 7.9° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth4 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water6 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed4 of 10
  • Mutable1 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart, with no planets in Fire or Air signs.

SZA’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Cancer 16°29′ · House 6

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ Ceres ℞Cancer 5°07′ · House 6

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 20°32′ · House 11

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 4°32′ · House 12

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithScorpio 0°31′ · House 10

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Chiron trine Sun 0.2°
  • Hygiea conjunction Venus 1.2°
  • Chiron trine Pluto 1.3°
  • Chiron trine Mercury 1.4°
  • Hygiea sextile Mars 1.5°
  • Ceres opposition Venus 1.7°
  • Hygiea conjunction Uranus 1.8°
  • Ceres trine Mars 2.1°
  • Ceres opposition Uranus 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Uranus 2.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mars 2.5°
  • Chiron trine Moon 2.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Venus 2.9°

SZA’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♇ Pluto15 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the tenth house; 5 major aspects

  2. 2. ♄ Saturn11.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Ascendant, Aquarius; in its own sign, Capricorn; disposes Venus, Uranus, Neptune; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♆ Neptune11 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Pisces; disposes Moon; 7 major aspects

Configurations in SZA’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Scorpio · Sun, Mercury, Mars, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Capricorn · Venus, Saturn, Uranus, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • kite, the shape it makesKite · Moon, Jupiter, Pluto, NeptuneA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
  • grand trine, the shape it makesGrand trine · Sun, Moon, JupiterThree planets each 120° apart, a closed triangle of trines. Astrologers read it as ease and talent that can go unexercised.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Moon quintile Uranus 0.9°
  • Sun semi-square Uranus 1.5°

SZA’s houses

SZA’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AquariusUranus in Capricorn, house 12emptyself, body, how you arrive
2PiscesNeptune in Capricorn, house 12Moonmoney, possessions, self-worth
3AriesMars in Scorpio, house 10emptymind, siblings, the local world
4TaurusVenus in Capricorn, house 12emptyhome, family, roots
5GeminiMercury in Scorpio, house 10emptycreativity, romance, play
6CancerMoon in Pisces, house 2Jupiterwork, habits, health
7LeoSun in Scorpio, house 10emptypartnership, marriage, open rivals
8VirgoMercury in Scorpio, house 10emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9LibraVenus in Capricorn, house 12emptybelief, travel, higher learning
10ScorpioPluto in Scorpio, house 10Sun, Mercury, Mars, Plutocareer, reputation, public life
11SagittariusJupiter in Cancer, house 6emptyfriends, community, the future
12CapricornSaturn in Capricorn, house 12Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptunethe inner world, rest, what is hidden

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SZA’s cards

Computed from November 8, 1989. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Wheel of Fortune

AsterNym identity card

The Tidal Scholar

Western zodiac

Scorpio

Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

Life Path

1 · Pioneer

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Water.

Year

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

乙

yin Wood

亥

Pig

Water

work & drive

Day

day master

壬

yang Water

申

Monkey

Metal

you & partnership

Hour

丙

yang Fire

午

Horse

Fire

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

SZA’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q16210722 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated A on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account. From Astro-Databank (Rodden A). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same SZA at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by SZA.

Quick answers about SZA’s chart

How old is SZA?
SZA is 37 years old, born November 8, 1989 in St. Louis, United States.
What zodiac sign is SZA?
SZA is a Scorpio: born November 8, 1989, which puts the Sun in Scorpio at the documented birth time.
What is SZA's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the November 8, 1989 birth.
What time was SZA born?
12:17 local time in St. Louis, United States, per Astro-Databank (Rodden A) (Rodden rating A).
What is SZA's rising sign?
Aquarius rising, calculated from the documented 12:17 birth time in St. Louis, United States (Rodden rating A: from the person, their family, or a contemporaneous account.).
What is SZA's Life Path number?
Life Path 1, calculated in numerology.
What is SZA's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 16°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is SZA's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio at 0°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is SZA's dominant planet?
Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (15 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; in its own sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars; angular in the tenth house; 5 major aspects). Saturn is second and Neptune third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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